As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
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